The First Isolation of a Phlegmacin Type Pigment from the Ascomycete Xylaria euglossa
Xing-Na Wanga,b, Ren-Xiang Tanb, Fei Wanga, Wolfgang Steglichc, and Ji-Kai Liua
aKunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, P.R. China
bInstitute of Functional Biomolecule, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
cDepartment Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit¨at M¨unchen, Butenandtstr. 5 – 13, D-81337 M¨unchen, Germany
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Z. Naturforsch. 60b, 333 – 336 (2005); received July 20, 2004
A new pigment, phlegmacin A 8,8’-di-O-methyl ether (1), was isolated from fruiting bodies of Xy- laria euglossa (Ascomycota) along with the known fungal pigments (S)-torosachrysone-8-O-methyl ether (2) and emodin-6,8-di-O-methyl ether (3). The structure of compound 1 was established on the basis of its spectroscopic data and the absolute configuration determined as P and 3’S by comparing the CD and1H NMR spectra of 1 with those of the phlegmacins 4 and 5. Compound 1 represents the first phlegmacin type pigment isolated from the ascomycete.
Key words: Xylaria euglossa, Ascomycota, Dihydroanthracenone, Phlegmacin A 8,8’-Di-O-methyl ether